From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.20]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2328790 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:35:44 -0500 Message-ID: <49A1C512.9050802@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:35:14 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.14 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] 3Com wireless card References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/22/09 04:00 pm, Ray Davison thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>> >> I was talking about a wireless ethernet bridge device, such as the >> Netgear ME101 (http://kb.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2496 ) >> or the LinkSys WET54G >> (http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WET54G ). > > What does it take to get these things to work. > Not much. Essentially, a short ethernet cable connects the unit to the computer. They usually require a power dongle, but I've seen some which don't (they may tap power from USB). Boot the computer, and it gets a DHCP address from the unit. Open a browser to it just like setting a wireless (or wired) broadband router or AP. Enter your wireless settings. Many have onboard utilities for site surveys and such. > And, this could be a good thing. Any suggestions for antennas? They usually come with fixed antennas. I'm no expert by any means (I don't own one, nor have I ever set one up!). However, John Edwards did a presentation on one at Warpstock 2005: http://www.warpstock.org/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=12 (look for "Getting Faster Wireless Network Speed"). The description of his presentation is available here: http://www2.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/client.html#CLI-05 . Hopefully, the above links will give you a bit more info on how these devices work (power, etc.). The newer units are typically labeled "gaming adapters," as their typical application is to connect to a game box which has no connectivity other than an RJ-45 port. They're specifically designed to set up easily, so as to be configurable from such gaming consoles. >> >> GenMAC has *some* support for PC Cards (CardBUS, whihc are 32-bit), >> but not (AFAICR) PCMCIA (the image which Jeff sent was a PCMCIA card, >> or so it appeared - no textured gold foil over the connector end). > > Yes, TRENDNet TEW-421PC is PCMCIA. > As PCMCIA is not part of the PCI BUS (it's 16-bit, not 32-bit), GenMAC probably knows nothing about it. ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------